Pyelonephritis in a mature gelding with an unusual urinary bladder foreign body: A Case Report

Abstract

Chronic septic pyelonephritis is an uncommon disease entity in the mature horse. It may be seen as a consequence of urolithiasis, trauma, or neurological disease of the urinary tract predisposing to secondary, ascending bacterial in fect ions. 1,2,a Pyelonephritis is primarily reported in mares. TM Mares, and females of other species, have a higher incidence of ascending urinary tract infections due to the anatomically shorter distance between the external environment and the urinary bladder. This ease represents a rare finding of pyelonephritis and hydronephrosis in a mature gelding where the predisposing cause was a urinary bladder foreign body.